Web Concepts

By Mitch “Yipee!” Keeler

Now I know many of us have used Google’s Webmaster Tools section a time or two, and maybe even submitted our own site map to it. Did you know though that you can do the same with Yahoo! search? The Yahoo! Site Explorer is one way to make sure that Yahoo! knows you are on the web and ready to be indexed.

One really cool thing is that they allow you to submit your RSS feed to be crawled too. You can also setup dynamic URLs. There are up to three dynamic parameters that you want Yahoo! to treat specially whenever these are seen in URLs belonging to your web site in question. Think of it as redirects that only Yahoo! can see.

All in all, I would say the Yahoo! Site Explorer is another “site stuff” bookmark you should be sure to submit yourself to.

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By Mitch “Netviber” Keeler

Want to add Lunartics, the Lunarpages Newsletter and the recent posts from Lunarforums all onto your own Lunarpages tab inside of Netvibes? Of course you do, silly. You can never have enough Lunartastic tips, tricks, articles and more. Thanks to the ease of creating a custom page via Netvibes I have this all ready and packaged together just for you.

All you need to do is click on the button bellow to add it to your own Netvibes setup.

I can promise you there is no better way to start your day!

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By Mitch “The Hostmaster” Keeler

From time to time we do receive a few frequently asked questions about our domain name registrations. I figured I would tackle a few of the most often asked ones here to help out any other current Lunarpages customers with questions or new ones who may not know yet.

What type of domains can Lunarpages register?

Lunarpages can register .com, .org, .us, .biz, .info, .name, .net, and .co.uk.

How can current customers register an additional domain name with Lunarpages?

You can add domain name registrations right from our Customer Account Page. New domain name registrations only cost $9.95 per domain name and then the same price for every year after that.

What if we don’t have a credit card on record with our account?

If that is the case, all you need to do is e-mail support@lunarapges.com with the following:

• Primary Domain Name:
• User Name:
• Home Address:
• First/Last Digits of Your Password:
• New Domain You Would Like to Register:

How can we transfer our domain name registered elsewhere to Lunarpages?

Send the same information as requested above to the same address, and we can get that taken care of for you there too. Here are a few more articles that should help you with any and all of your domain name questions you might have:

• Domain Name Transfers
• Domain Transfers and Domain Lifecycle

Also don’t forget about your free domain for life you get with the Basic and Business hosting plans.

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By Mitch “The Marketeer” Keeler

There is no doubt in my mind that social networks of all shapes and sizes help, not hurt, you when it comes to building your own name, presence and fan fallowing with your web site.  You have your MySpace, your Facebook, your Twitter and more. 

I think you should get your name out there anywhere and everywhere you can.

I hate that AT&T commercial where the British-sounding guy is “trying to find the Internet”, the great thing for them though is that even though I hate it I have seen it so many times I have picked up on the commercial’s main purpose.  It is for AT&T’s wireless Internet services. 

You can use the various social networks in the same way.. hopefully you will be less annoying about it.  Join up, toss your links in there and do your best to use the service to build new friendships, followers and fans.  I know with my own presence on both MySpace and Facebook - I have entries from my RSS feed going right into my profile so now that group of people I used to go to high school with can now see just about everything I publish.  These are eyeballs seeing my content that would not have without spreading out to the social web.

Finally this all comes down to, well what do you have to lose?  So maybe you don’t get any followers or dedicated fanboys knocking on your virtual social door.  You have gained a few more links back, and you now have a new place where people can find you.  Your creating a new path to yourself so if somebody stumbles upon it they know exactly where to look for more.  On the other side if things go well, then you might be able to get in better communication and contact with those who like what you do with your own web site and well, having fans is never a bad thing.

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By Mitch “Tutorial Finder” Keeler

Now that the WordPress Design Contest (version 2!) is on its way I have been getting a lot of questions that sound a lot like this one:  I want to enter the contest, but I am not sure exactly how to create a theme for WordPress? As long as you know some things about web site design, CSS and working with templates - you should have little to no problem at all.  Here are a few tutorials though to get you started with the theme design process:

WordPress.org - Theme Development

WordPress.org -  Designing Themes for Public Release

Wordpress Tutorial: How to Create a Wordpress Theme

So you want to create WordPress themes huh?

How to Create a WordPress Template or Theme

Make Your Own WordPress Theme

Have any other favorite WordPress theme tutorials you would like to share?  Feel free to drop them into the comments!

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By Mitch “Monochrome” Keeler

Move over Google Docs and Zoho Writer, there is a new word processing application online.  Feast your eyes on Writer, the Internet typewriter.  

No logging in, complicated menus or any of that jazz.  This is the first lightweight online word processor I have run across.  Just because it is lightweight doesn’t mean it is short on features though.  You can setup a new document, save, get word count, send it to others, download and print your written words. 

So is this just one out of many more to come like it?  I’ve always been a big fan of your lightweight writing programs and this online counterpart looks very compelling as well. 

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By Mitch “THE April Fool” Keeler

I have to say there have been a lot of “creative” stories Online today.  Here are some of the best (or maybe the worst depending on how many you have seen) April Fools 2008 stories so far.

• Betamax to HD-DVD Converter
• Gmail Custom Time?
• Google Bedroom?
• TechCrunch acquires Tiger Beat?
• Wales Resigns from Wikipedia to Become a Monk?
• Firefox Facts Goes to the Dark Side?
• Opera Scores 106 on Acid 3 Test!
• Wi-Fi Makes Teacher’s Head Explode?
• Lance Ulanoff (PC Mag) still Uses Windows 3.1?
• All YouTube Front Page Videos Go Here?

I love April Fools Day!  Seen any other good ones?

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By Mitch “B-Ball” Keeler

The latest and greatest release of the hosting industry’s greatest newsletter is out and ready for reading. Lunarpages Newsletter, Issue 8 is ready for the masses.

In this month’s edition web have just for you packed in some of the best of the best:

• LunarNews March 2008

• Creating your First Website with LP Quicksite

• Lunar Legal - Should I register My Mark?

• A Little More About Windows Hosting

• The Pros and Cons of PayPal

• Write Better Web Site Content

• Lunarpages Interviews TheRatingBlog.com

• Top 10 Reasons to Burn Your Feed

• Lunarpages Staff Interview: The Infamous Steven Priest

• Difference in Hits vs Visits in Webalizer

• Help Us with your Hosting How-Tos

Won’t cost you a cent to read, and you can keep coming back for more. Please feel free to leave us any and all feedback on it, and also we want to hear your suggestions for Issue 9 coming to an inbox near you, this April!

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By Mitch "Loves CSS" Keeler

I am always in search for tools out there that will make the webmaster’s job an easier one.  One of the most recent ones I have run across is called TabCreatr.  The web site is still in "alpha" release, but already has a lot to love. All you need to do is visit the page, and click on the link to Start TabCreatr. 

From there you choose from a selection of drop down boxes and options how you want your tabs to look. 

After you are done, just grab the code and you are ready to go.  Know of an easier way to create a tabbed navigation from scratch?  TabCreatr almost makes the whole CSS design process too easy!

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By Mitch “Q & A” Keeler

As some of you may know, Joomla is yet another one of the great free content management systems out there from the Web that you can install and use to make your web site even better. It adds management options you never thought you wanted or you never knew you needed. Over the weekend though I got a Lunartics reader asking me where could they find some templates and themes for this CMS king?

Here are a few of my suggestions for theme databases for Joomla powered web sites:

Joomla-Themes.co.uk

JoomlaShack.com

OSSkins.com

ThemesBase.com

Joomla-Themes.biz

Have any more good ones? Feel free to send them my way or drop them in as a comment. Would love to get a few more opinions on where the best places are to get Joomla themes are.

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